Walker Percy (1916-1990) won the National Book Award for fiction in 1961 for his first published novel, The Moviegoer. In five subsequent novels and numerous essays, he explored his chosen theme of "t...
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Walker Percy was born in Birmingham, Alabama, on 28 May 1916. He married Mary Bernice Townsend in 1946, has two daughters, and is very much the family man and private person at his home in Covington, ...
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In the following excerpt, Young compares and contrasts the work of Walker Percy and Walter Miller, contending that both have authored science-fiction novels in the sense that science fiction deals wit...
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Critical Essay by Edward J. Cashin
Walker Percy's Lancelot reminds us of the novelist's role as conveyor of history. Although Percy is knowledgeable about the facts of Southern history,...
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Critical Essay by Thomas Leclair
Percy's devil [Immelmann] is a modern avatar of the Faust and Don Juan myths so prominently alluded to in Love in the Ruins, but the details of Immelmann...
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Critical Essay by Robert D. Daniel
In an article published almost twenty years ago, Walker Percy talked of modern man's peculiar predicament, the result of secular man living under the protect...
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Critical Essay by Robert Coles
[For Percy, as indicated in his essay "Symbol as Need" (1954),] the inclination toward symbolization is not only a uniquely human one, but one in no way e...
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Critical Essay by John F. Zeugner
The relationship of [Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Marcel, Camus, and Sartre] to Percy's fiction is just beginning to be sorted out. Certainly the sorting-out is cr...
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Critical Essay by Richard Gilman
My keen admiration for Walker Percy's fiction always has been menaced around the edges by the fact that in each of his books there are at least three or four o...
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Critical Essay by Gerard Reedy
Though Walker Percy has always been a critic of how twentieth-century Americans live, and though The Second Coming, his fifth novel, continues this critique, this new w...
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Sometimes, Michiko Kakutani gets tired of being Michiko Kakutani. Can you identify the imaginary alternative persona in each of the following passages?
1. "Dwight says 'dude' an awful lot, but boy...
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*NEW YORKObvious choice? Maybe. Wanna make something of it? The truth is, leaving this brash five-borough beast of a town off any list of superlative cities would be unthinkable. It’s impossi...
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Walker Percy
Walker Percy
Critical Essay by R. V. Young
Quiz: Who Is Michiko Kakutani?
